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A Hoosier Chronicle

CHAPTER XII
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And you must have a new picture taken of yourself--I'd like it in your doctor's gown, that they gave you at Williams.

It's put away in the cedar chest in the attic--Mary will know where.

And if you have a picture of father anywhere I should like to have that too." She did not know that when this reached him--one of the series of letters on which the old gentleman lived these days, with its Wellesley postmark, and addressed in Sylvia's clear, running hand, he bowed his white head and wept; for he knew what was in the girl's heart--knew and dreaded this roused yearning, and suffered as he realized the arid wastes of his own ignorance.

But he sent her the picture of her mother for which she asked, and had the cottage photographed with Mills Hall showing faintly beyond the hedge; and he meekly smuggled his doctor's gown to the city and sat for his photograph.

These things Sylvia proudly spread upon the walls of her room.


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